Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2007-01-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jan Engelhardt wrote: just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. I had a bunch of similar

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2007-01-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jan Engelhardt wrote: just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. I had a bunch of similar

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-21 Thread David Rientjes
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >These casts can eliminate "return value unused" warnings. > > But only when functions are tagged __must_check, and sprintf is not. > cmpxchg is one where (void) is 'needed', __as I wrote__ in a cxgb3 > comment. > gcc requires functions to be

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 21 2006 15:40, Joe Perches wrote: >On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:29 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Dec 21 2006 14:53, Joe Perches wrote: >> >On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/30/208 >> >@@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static int

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 21 2006 14:53, Joe Perches wrote: >On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/30/208 > >@@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_ > battery->init_state = 1; > } > >- (void)sprintf(dir_name,

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 20 2006 17:42, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Bearing in mind that some casts may have been put in when struct > members had other values, may be needed on some hardware but not > others, etc. Cleanups are good, but may not be as obvious as they > appear. > > Not that there's a lack of places to

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 20 2006 17:42, Bill Davidsen wrote: Bearing in mind that some casts may have been put in when struct members had other values, may be needed on some hardware but not others, etc. Cleanups are good, but may not be as obvious as they appear. Not that there's a lack of places to remove

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 21 2006 14:53, Joe Perches wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/30/208 @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static int acpi_battery_add(struct acpi_ battery-init_state = 1; } - (void)sprintf(dir_name,

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 21 2006 15:40, Joe Perches wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:29 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 21 2006 14:53, Joe Perches wrote: On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 21:52 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/30/208 @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static int acpi_battery_add(struct

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-21 Thread David Rientjes
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: These casts can eliminate return value unused warnings. But only when functions are tagged __must_check, and sprintf is not. cmpxchg is one where (void) is 'needed', __as I wrote__ in a cxgb3 comment. gcc requires functions to be declared with

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jan Engelhardt wrote: just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. I had a bunch of similar

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Davidsen
Jan Engelhardt wrote: just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. I had a bunch of similar

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > (1) Catch casts where they are usually not necessary, because the value > would be anyhow discarded > > (void)strcpy(b, a); > > (Does not apply to e.g. cmpxchg -- that's why I mentioned (b)!) > Actually, there's a number of people out

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 19 2006 13:24, David Rientjes wrote: >On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> > I don't know if anyone cares about them anymore, since I think gcc >> > grew some smarts in the area recently, but there are a lot of lines of >> > code matching "static int.*= *0;" and equivalents in

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > I don't know if anyone cares about them anymore, since I think gcc > > grew some smarts in the area recently, but there are a lot of lines of > > code matching "static int.*= *0;" and equivalents in the driver tree. > > I'd really like to see the C

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> > just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or >> > any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle >> > guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's >> > amusing. extra searches happily accepted. >> >> I had a bunch of similar

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread Bob Copeland
On 12/19/06, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:46:24AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or > any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle > guide. clearly, it's far from

Re: my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:46:24AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or > any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle > guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's > amusing.

my handy-dandy, "coding style" script

2006-12-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. rday #!/bin/sh DIR=${1-.} echo -e "\n=

my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. rday #!/bin/sh DIR=${1-.} echo -e \n=

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:46:24AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread Bob Copeland
On 12/19/06, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:46:24AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
just for fun, i threw the following together to peruse the tree (or any subdirectory) and look for stuff that violates the CodingStyle guide. clearly, it's far from complete and very ad hoc, but it's amusing. extra searches happily accepted. I had a bunch of similar greps that I've

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: I don't know if anyone cares about them anymore, since I think gcc grew some smarts in the area recently, but there are a lot of lines of code matching static int.*= *0; and equivalents in the driver tree. I'd really like to see the C compiler

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 19 2006 13:24, David Rientjes wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: I don't know if anyone cares about them anymore, since I think gcc grew some smarts in the area recently, but there are a lot of lines of code matching static int.*= *0; and equivalents in the driver

Re: my handy-dandy, coding style script

2006-12-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: (1) Catch casts where they are usually not necessary, because the value would be anyhow discarded (void)strcpy(b, a); (Does not apply to e.g. cmpxchg -- that's why I mentioned (b)!) Actually, there's a number of people out there